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In actual practice the use of the past perfect quite frequently violates the mathematically precise timelines set out for it in grammar books It is merely an indicator that something happened in the context of something past Now the problem is that this past point of view has to be established...

Alienvoord wrote Does English even have a past subjunctive It was agreed six months ago that the house come what may was to be decorated inside and out before the end of June was is identical in form to the simple past So why do some people call it the past subjunctive Hi AlienvoordIn...

Hi Int here are my examples of simple past tense have When I was a child I have so many toys You are not forming the past tense correctly here I had you had he she it had we had they had I have been in New York last year What you are using here is Present Perfect tense not Simple Past You need to...

Marius Hancu wrote Kilimanjaro wrote Do we have to use The Simple past Tense after the time phrase if the time expression is not pluralized as in over the last week No No connection Hi Marius So you mean it s ok if we use either tense after over the last week I ran into the explanation in a...

D is the correct answer given in the exercise book where this question was derived The question here is what attitude state of mind or intent did the speaker want to convey In the given sentence if you think the speaker meant to express doubt about the success of the negotiation then the correct...

The question here is what attitude state of mind or intent did the speaker want to convey In the given sentence if you think the speaker meant to express doubt about the success of the negotiation then the correct tense to use would be the past perfect to indicate an unreal situation in the past...

Rotter The reason for using past perfect tense is to illustrate the event s occurred in the past with more time reference The during of the event decides whether it requires a simple past pr past perfect tense e g It rained yesterady finished vs It had rained for the weeks in March and I was...

3 What s the difference between I would like to see it VS I should like to see it In American English you do not use I should to mean I would like to which translates roughly into Please may I see it I m sure you can construct a situation in which you d say I should like to see it but you d have...

Many thanks to all of you especially to GG for his very clear explanation Grammar Geek could you do me a favour I d much appreciate if you could take a look at these questions and answer at least some of them at you convenience 2 A very similar problem emerges with I m waiting for Ann said Jack...

While doing some reported indirect speech stuff again lots of questions has come to my mind Here are some of them 1 I never eat meat Bill said explained gt turns into gt Bill said explained that he never ate meat This is the normal way in which most of us would transform the sentence isn t it BUT...